Cairo Conspiracy
We were delighted to previously screen this film but we have no current plans to screen it again. If you'd like to watch it in the cinema, consider a private hire to watch it with friends. That does rely on the film being available for private purchase.
Film details
| Film Title | Cairo Conspiracy |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 126mins |
| Year | 2022 |
| Country | Sweden, France, Finland, Denmark |
| Director | Tarik Saleh |
| Actors | Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mohammad Bakri |
| Language | Arabic |
| AKA | Walad min al-Janna |
| Showings |
Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the center of power of Sunni Islam. Adam becomes a pawn in the conflict between Egypt’s religious and political elites.
The journey of the film, and of Saleh’s sophisticated script, is to find grace notes of sympathy for this particular devil.
★★★★
There’s an intriguing mix of scorn and paranoia here, together with a yearning for individual figures of decency halfway down the food chain – it reminded me of John le Carré.
★★★★
